On the other hand, you may receive Public Wifi Signal in your house that shows speed of over 100Mbps on speedtest.net.

However, in reality, it will only offer a fraction of a fraction of that speed due to multiple devices connected to it.

Moreover, watching Netflix on your mobile data plan won’t make sense because streaming videos will use up your month’s full of data in less than an hour.

Stronger and Wider Range Wifi Router

Considering that you have a speedy internet connection, coupling it with a capable router is necessary as well.

If you live in a studio or 2-room apartment, any Wifi router under $25 will suffice (my recommendation), however, if you live in a bigger house or a house spanning multiple floors, you’ll need a bigger, badder and faster router, which cost upward of $100.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to spend over $100 and have an existing Wifi Router, you can get a Wifi Repeater (also known as Wifi Range Extender) and enjoy excellent signal strength for under $25.

Longer Battery Life

I personally hate using my laptop when it is connected to the charging cable, and I believe same will be the situation with most of you.

Moreover, it is also kind of irritating, when you’re in the middle of an intense episode and the laptop starts indicating ‘Battery Low’ and switches off after few minutes, leaving you high and dry of what’s next to come.

Hence keeping this in mind, I’ve only selected laptops that offer close to 8 hours of battery life while streaming videos on full charge.

This way, you can complete an entire TV series of 8-10 episodes or watch 2-3 movies back to back in one go.

Though there’s one laptop in this list that only offers 4 hours of battery, however considering its price to performance ratio, I felt it to be a steal of a price for you.

What’s up with the Screen Size?

If you’re looking for the best laptop for streaming Netflix, screen size is of the utmost importance, any given day.

However if your only purpose is to watch Netflix, our eyes can get used to any screen size, be it an 11” or 17” laptop, once it becomes a habit.

For singular watching, a laptop screen size between 11”, 13” and 14” will be sufficient, however for watching as a couple, anything above 14” will be ideal.

To Chromebook, or not to Chromebook?

For people who need laptop for only streaming Netflix and other online videos, Chromebooks are one of the best options because they are:

Cheap in price

Light in Weight

Provide longer Battery Life

Are Extremely Portable

Can be used to run Netflix Android App to Download Videos for Offline Viewing

However comparing it to a Windows-based Laptop or Mac-based laptop (for this instance), the Chromebooks are limited in functionality; they have very limited storage (from 16-64GB) and most of them can’t be upgraded as well.

Hence if you pinpoint on a Chromebook, make sure you’re only going to use it for Netflix streaming or if you need the best cheap laptop for Word Processing and Internet use.

If you’re a college student or working professional and need a laptop for use other than Netflix, getting a Windows-based laptop will be an ideal choice.

In this list, where we are only talking about the best laptop for streaming Netflix, I’ve included a couple of Chromebooks that are great options.

The New Year 2019, calls for a new processor and a laptop that are both launched in 2019, isn’t it?

Hence why, this next laptop is fresh off from the bakery of multinational American brand HP.

The USP of this laptop is that it weighs only 2.88 pounds, which makes it the best featherweight laptop for streaming videos on Netflix at your maximum comfort.

Not only that, being such a lightweight laptop, it can turn out to be the best laptop for internet surfing on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Other than that, this laptop turns out to be an excellent MacBook Air alternative; if you’re looking for one with better styling and almost half the price.

Once you open the lid of HP Pavilion 13-AN0010NR; the mechanism raises the laptop a little bit and gives it an incline that certainly makes it the best laptop for writers after their Netflix sessions.

Powering the laptop is the latest Intel Core i5-8265U processor, which is a predecessor to Intel Core i5-8250U that offers better power efficiency and is more robust too.

It comes with a 13.3” Full HD screen that offers an IPS panel with excellent brightness compared to similar counterparts.

What makes it the best laptop for Netflix is the fact that it offers battery life of whopping 11 hours on mixed usage, whereas for full video streaming; you should expect around 9.5 hours of running time, which is ideal enough for watching 3-5 full-length movies at one go or an entire 9-10 episodes TV series.

Once you’re done watching Netflix on this laptop; you can also use it for Word Processing, Internet Surfing, listening music, creating presentations and spreadsheets due to its mega 8GB DDR4 memory that is a mixture of speed and space.

Other than that, it also comes with a 256GB NVMe SSD, which is 3-6x faster than traditional SSDs and over 50x faster than traditional HDDs.

Launched in 2019, the Asus Q405UA is a very budget friendly and ultra lightweight laptop for corporate users. However, all these aspects of this laptop can be exploited by you and turn this laptop in your own home entertainment for watching Netflix.

Since it’s a 2-in-1 laptop that can be folded in a 360-degree manner, you can keep the laptop as shown in the picture below and turn this into the best laptop for streaming video.

This way, you don’t have to carry the entire weight of the laptop on your lap, while still enjoy excellent video streaming experience. This feature also makes it the best laptop for watching movies and internet because the screen panel is touch enabled; hence you can browse around the web without using the physical keyboard or trackpad at all.

Another advantage of this laptop is that it can be used as a tablet too. Since it has a screen size of 14” and weighs just around 3.5 lbs; you wouldn’t have any issues keeping it on your lap and using it.

To improve your user experience, you can also get the Asus Pen, which is an active stylus that helps to improve how you use the touchscreen and interact with it better. Hence in the tablet format; you can turn this into the best laptop for listening music.

On the inside, it comes with an Intel Core i5-8250U processor, which is a recommended processor for streaming Netflix; due to its excellent balance between power and efficiency.

The use of Intel Core i5-8250U enables the Asus Q405UA to last for almost 6 hours on full charge.

Additionally, you get excellent Full HD IPS panel that offers superior color reproduction for the price you’re paying.

And since the Full HD panel is fitted on a smaller 14” screen, it will make streaming videos and Netflix look crisp.

The previously mentioned Asus Chromebook Flip C302 was a definitive upgrade over the Acer Chromebook 14, however for a price of under $500, there are better options available as well.

And one of the options is the Lenovo Ideapad 330 17IKB.

And it’s a mammoth 17.3” laptop, though with an off-putting 1600 x 900 resolution display.

Now the guideline I set for this list is only to include laptops with a Full HD display, however, after seeing the specification, features and design this laptop offers, I really felt it to be a steal deal.

For a price of less than $500, you get an extremely powerful and efficient 8th-gen Intel Core i5-8250U processor, coupled with a blazing fast 8GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB HDD, DVD Writer, Bluetooth, Type-C USB and preinstalled Windows 10.

Comparing it to Asus Chromebook Flip C302, the Lenovo Ideapad 330 17IKB is a complete steal.

Even the processor in Ideapad 330 is twice as fast as the C302, with double the RAM and boat load of storage at the same price, along with Windows 10 and a humongous 17-inch display.

Moreover, not only is the Ideapad 330 powerful on the inside, but it looks incredibly cool on the outside too with a proportionally placed chiclet keyboard with number pad and an ideal size touchpad with an abundance of space to rest your palms while typing.

However, where the Lenovo Ideapad 330 fails is its huge size and low battery life.

Definitely, the 17.3” screen will be a joy to watch Netflix on it, but bigger laptops reduce portability.

Also, you only get a meager 4-hours of battery life, which really isn’t enough, however, if you can connect the laptop to a power source and use Netflix, you really won’t feel any trouble at all.

Honestly, all the 4 laptops I mentioned above had some kind of quirks to them, multiple advantages and few disadvantages too.

All of the laptops had a varying price point.

However, if you don’t want fancy quirks and need just a traditional price at an inexpensive price point, then the Acer Aspire E5-576-392H is the ideal pick of the lot.

Priced under $400, this 15.6” laptop houses 8th-gen Intel Core i3-8130U processor, 6GB RAM and 1TB Hard Disk, which is an ideal specification for a primary laptop suitable for watching Netflix on a budget.

Not only that, it offers battery life over 12 hours with a full HD display along with pre-installed Windows 10 OS.

For the price and features it offers, this Acer Aspire laptop is a complete steal. However to improve its performance you can swap the 2GB memory stick with a 4GB stick for an additional $25.

Alongside, with the provided M.2 SATA slot, you can add a faster and efficient 500GB SSD to increase the laptop’s performance for an extra $100.

In case you get tired of Netflixing every day, with the mentioned upgrades you can play games like Fortnite at low to medium settings.

The Spin series from Acer features a slew of 2-in-1 laptops that look like a traditional laptop but has a touch screen and can be flipped 360-degree to use as a tablet or can be kept in tent mode while watching movies.

Priced just over $500, the laptop offers a well performing Intel Core i5-7200U processor, coupled with a faster and bigger 12GB DDR4 RAM; however it is bottle-necked by a slower 5400RPM 1TB Hard Disk.

This is an excellent laptop; however, for a faster day to day performance, you can swap the 1TB HDD with a 500GB SSD under $100.

Note: The SSD recommended for Acer Aspire E5-576-392H has a M.2 slot, whereas the SSD recommended for Acer Spin 3 SP315 has a 2.5″ SATA port.

Since it’s one of the best laptop for streaming videos, you get a beautiful, bright and vibrant 15.6” Full-HD IPS display, which is a joy for daily use.

It features a 4-cell 3220mAh Lithium-Ion battery, which is capable of keeping the laptop alive for 7-8 hours on full charge.

Additionally, it features a backlit keyboard as well that offers keyboard visibility while using the laptop at night, without trying to guess what keys you are pressing or without using your smartphone’s flashlight.

There are two in-built stereo speakers and really aren’t something to talk about much; hence you’re better off using a headphone or Bluetooth speaker.

What’s more the laptop has to offer is a secure SD Card Reader, HD Webcam, Bluetooth 4.0, USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 along with HDMI.

Few Last Words Before you Leave…

Now that you’ve reached till here, I bet that you would have enjoyed this articles and the laptop that I mentioned.

I have spent over 48 hours, compiling this list, going over 100’s of laptops, their specifications, online review and videos, to make sure that you make a perfect purchase decision.

All the laptops mentioned here are mostly ready-to-use, and you don’t want to upgrade anything before you start using them.

Confused between Windows and Chromebooks? If your use is mainly watching online videos, internet surfing, word processing, then Chromebooks will suffice, however, if the purpose is anything more than that or you need a couple of softwares available on Windows, then buying a Windows-based laptop is a logical choice.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments section, I will be happy to answer all your queries.